SP5DER Puts Red Patent Leather on the adidas F50 Formotion

SP5DER's newest adidas Originals drop is two more pairs of the F50 Formotion, one in red patent leather with hot pink and one in Solar Green with black. adidas calls it "FIELD TESTED," and it's out worldwide on the CONFIRMED app and at select retailers. The number that matters is two. It's the second F50 pack from Young Thug's label since July, which makes the football boot, not the Superstar, the shoe this partnership is building around.

KZ6578 Is Red Patent Leather and Hot Pink

The red pair, style code KZ6578, has an upper of red patent leather and mesh. Hot pink runs across the Three Stripes, the outsole, the heel support and the tongue logo. It's the louder of the two by a distance.

KZ6581 goes the other way. Its upper is Solar Green, set against black branding, a black midsole and a black heel support, with the SP5DER logo on the tongue, the heel and the insoles. Both pairs are sold in unisex sizing.

Patent leather is the thread worth noticing. SP5DER's first adidas shoe, the Superstar Supermodified, put patent leather on the shell toe and pressed a spider web into it. The red F50 brings that same high gloss finish onto a boot shape, where it reads less like a dress shoe and more like a kit.

SP5DER's Own Site Got It First

SP5DER sold the pack first. It opened on kingsp5der.com on November 13, and the global release followed on November 14 through the CONFIRMED app, select retailers and adidas stores. That order matches the July pair, which previewed on SP5DER's site on June 26 before going global on July 1.

Sneaker News lists the shoes at $200 and the apparel that comes with them from $70 to $140. In Europe the pair is €200. The July Silver Metallic pair, KZ6575, launched at $190, so the new pack sits a little above it.

Fifty Years After 1954, adidas Built the F50

The F50 name is itself a number. adidas launched the boot in 2004, ahead of Euro 2004, as the successor to its X line, and the 50 marked half a century since Germany won the 1954 World Cup in adidas boots with screw in studs. The original used a FusionFrame chassis and hid the Three Stripes.

The line ran 11 years before adidas retired it in 2015. In 2006 it produced the +F50.6, sold as the first football boot with interchangeable parts, and in 2011 the F50 adizero Prime took weight down with a thin upper and a Sprintframe soleplate.

The Formotion is the F50 rebuilt for the street, a lifestyle shoe with no studs. Footwear Magazine called it a new adidas Originals silhouette when SP5DER's Silver Metallic pair arrived in June.

Young Thug Moved From the Shell Toe to the Pitch

Young Thug founded SP5DER in 2019, and its adidas story started on the Superstar. The spider web shell toe launched globally on March 3, 2026, in two colorways, black with a silver heel and red with black, on a 1969 silhouette. It sold through the CONFIRMED app, the channel FIELD TESTED uses now.

Then the partnership went to football. The Silver Metallic F50 Formotion came with a World Cup collection fronted by Lamine Yamal, including a rhinestone tracksuit, shorts, socks, a cap with rhinestone Three Stripes and goalkeeper gloves. The July pair had a zig zag mesh upper with leather overlays, lenticular badges and metal hang tags.

The campaign put Yamal in a fictionalized locker room, and the casting made sense. He plays for Spain in adidas, wearing number 19, while his club kit at Barcelona comes from Nike.

adidas Originals by JENNIE arrived on September 1 with a squared toe, laceless Superstar. adidas spent 2026 pairing musicians with its archive shapes, and SP5DER is the one it has come back to twice on the same football shoe.

Football First, Then the Web

SP5DER isn't only a sneaker label right now. At ComplexCon in Los Angeles on October 4, its booth handed out CDs titled "YT + PBC Vol. 1," tying Young Thug and Playboi Carti together before either had announced a project. The brand runs on that kind of crossover, music first and product close behind. The music side has the résumé to carry it. In April 2026 The New York Times Magazine put Thug on its unranked list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters, alongside Bob Dylan and Kendrick Lamar. A label with that founder can sell a football shoe on attitude alone.

The adidas side runs on a different engine, the archive and collaborator playbook that turned the 1950 Samba into its best selling lifestyle shoe. Take an old performance shape, hand it to someone with a following, and repeat in new colors.

"FIELD TESTED" is the right name for where that leaves the F50 Formotion.

The silhouette had one colorway in July. It has three now, KZ6575 in silver, KZ6578 in red and pink and KZ6581 in Solar Green, and SP5DER has put its name on all three.